Inhabited space transcends geometrical space

If you are counting your enemies, you should not count me among them, sir

The Hermit Hut

The best thing I’d done for myself as a waiter was to have the cheap polyester tux we all had to wear tailored shortly after starting.

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Sixty Books a Year Book Club

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You Will Be Fragmented

When an artist dies young there is always talk of the paintings unpainted, the books unwritten, which points to some imaginary storehouse of undone things and not to the imagination itself, the far richer treasure, lost.

The Neutral Roach

Anything that ever was white is not white here. That is not a color you see. Even a white flower opening up on a bush just looks doomed for this world.

From Toca to Trocars

Hostility overwhelmed me. It’s more than just not liking roaches: I don’t want them.

Silence Has Many Advantages

This book is like any other book. But I would be happy if it were only read by people whose souls are already formed.

Photo Dump Nothing In Particular

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La Belle Mort

Since the only kind of poker you know is strip or losing, I’ll give myself a handicap

The Exquisite, Alabaster Corpse

I asked him about the children’s scooter on the ground. “I don’t know how that got there,” he said.

A Church Made of Dirt

So masterfully do we hide death, you would almost believe we are the first generation of immortals.